Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW GUILDHALL STREET
639-1/14/398 (West side)
12/07/72 No.76

GV II

House. Early C19. Timber-framed and stuccoed; slate roof with
a plain wood eaves soffit.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellar. 3 window range: 12-pane sashes
in moulded flush cased frames except the central upper window,
which is blocked. A 6-panel door up 3 steps is set back in a
semicircular-headed arched doorway. Plain reveals, moulded
door surround with Greek key ornament to architrave and a
large rectangular fanlight divided by glazing bars into 6
panes.
A long 2-storey rear range on the north is roughcast rendered
over timber framing on the ground storey with C19 red brick
above; part of this is divided off as a separate house, No.76A
(qv).
INTERIOR: extensive cellars, brick lined with vaulted ceilings
below front. At the rear a long very rough brick-vaulted range
with chalk walling extends below the whole length of the back
garden and has an open well at the far end. Most rooms of the
main range have moulded and decorated plaster cornices.
Internal window shutters have sunk panels. Stair with stick
balusters, ramped handrail and bracketed open strings. A
single storey red brick rear extension on the south-west has a
segmental curve to its walling with large 12-pane sash
windows. 3 bays of the north range are partly within No.76:
chamfered main beams have run-off stops.

Listing NGR: TL8525063996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26645533

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Recommended Books

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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)